Offshore Quarantine

Sailin’ ye seas o’ social distancin’ since 2020

  • The Black Pirate (1926)

    A wealthy young man survives the taking of his vessel by a band of pirates but loses his father in the incident, and then in disguise joins the pirate crew. The mythic setting may be the English Caribbean. They take another prize and the young man works to save the vessel and ship’s company surreptitiously…

  • Old Ironsides (1926)

    In this well-regarded early silent naval epic, Old Ironsides, a young scalawag goes to sea only to be taken captive by the notorious pirates of the Barbary Coast in the Mediterranean. The doughty American warship USS Constitution battles the pirates and prevails! Based loosely on a real American naval war off Libya fought in 1804…